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SHOW TALK goes to the EDINBURGH FESTIVAL
Wordsworth is the name
(Words
Only one man
did anything new
THE
EDINBURGH,
THE opening, weok of Edinburgh's fifth Fes- tival closed with Lord Mountbatten taking the salute from the Royal box at the · Castle Tattoo the biggest box-office attraction of all.
It was a week which left many of the international festival-makers if not bothered, at last bewitched and
bewildered.
Every afternoon and evening thousands of, words and notes have been' poured out from stages and concer: platforms into the ears of reasonably rapt. audiences.
And every morning thousands more words have been uttered by the Fesitval organisers, producera and stars— defending or apologising for what they had done the day bifare.
This Was Absurd
With a choice between a policy of bold;adventurous- ness and playing to safely, Mr Jan Hunter, the Festival dreeter, and his associates have piumped for safely this year. Now they are blushing a little over their timidity. There inquests at the Festival's scelal centre, cich morning-after-the-night-before, have been remarkable
among Icast
them was a lively argumen: spectacles. Not between the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orches tra's two distinguished conductors-Dini Mitropoulos and Bruno Waller-about whether they should apologise to the public for the ultra-familiar programmes they are. playing.
Lackwood
Why, we have even had poor Murgare:
called upon to her own evident surprise to defend Bernard Shaw.
"But I thought 'Pygmalion' was a classic," she ex- claimed. "I thought it would. be wonderful to act the of the Festivel; it does not seem old, and worn to
play, me!"
Her
Mirs Lockwood need not worry about herself, Eliza Doolittle was a pretty good effort in the circum stances. But, of course, it is absurd that "Pygmation" should be the dramatic show-
picce of a 1951 Festival with a world-wide audience.
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M-G-M. Lion ) Has Reason
MARGARET LOCKWOOD (as Eliza in Pygmalion) talks to daughter Toots.
the Americans are even pearances in support, this is sure-lying the menu prices before iy not enough,
ordering." he remarked.
Amid a mass of interesting de It is symptomatic of this year's
cumentary "shorts" from all Festival-which is a superbly created monument to Familiarity. Ever the world. Britain is cffer- ing audienets such fascinating Mr Hunter, producer, Henry subjects as Electricity and Light, Sherck and the musical spokes- Asphaltfe Bitumen and min all picad the same excuse Medical production Costs are 100 g:eat Snakes, to risk
new works which, the international publle migh: no support of the box-office.
I am unconvinced. If the Fcs- tival organisers can spend £50,- 000-bringing over--0----larga- American orchestra, as one em alone, they can surely spare some money to commission one new work by a leading British dromalist.
Aspect ef
the
Venomous
This is supposed to be a Festival. You will get no report on bitumen or sunkes from ine- 1 spent my half-crown admission, instead, on the USA's Make-Up for Girls.
Moira's Autograph
·To Roar
-
Says JACK DAVIES
Into London last
came a print of "Fabiola." a movie that must caused, the head boys at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer many a sleepless night.
M.-G.-M., it will be recalled, spent some months and over six million dollars in Italy Inst year filming "Quo | Vadis?"
At the same time, an Italian company was lining "Fablola," attle-known novel by Car- dinol Wiseman.
:
Both deal with the era when
the most popular form of Roman entertainment consisted et watching Christians being thrown to the lions.
Both are going to gri publicity campaigns In: grculer than Nero ever gave the Colosseum.
'WILD REVELRY'
M.-G.-M. describe "Quo Vadis?" as the most expensive movie ever made, The pro- moters of "Fabiola" more modestly describe their pic-
merely as fabulous," add- Jag (among other things) that
it contains "scenes of wild re- velry and lusty grandeur in. pagan, sinful Rome."
Naturally, the showing of the. Hallan Alm ahead of "QUỐ Vadis?". isn't going to help M.-G.-M. IT It is good, it will dent the "Q.V." box-office re- turns. If It is bad. It may put people off. QV”
But they have one consola
world Copyright Reserved-London | ilon. While "Quo Vadis?" has
Express Service.)
Nadia Gray
International
Film Star
a star-studded cast headed by Kerr Robert Taylor. Deborah and practically every well known British character ac- tor. the only known name in "Fabiola" is Michele Morgan,
£2.000 NOSE
The most famous nose of our time, next to that belonging in a Mr James Durante,
kely to be the one worn by Jose Ferrer in the film version of "Cyrano de Bergerac" which' due to be shown in Britain a month or so.
Girl who can lay just claim to the title of inter-in
"Tis a rock, a crag, a cape OTHER Edinburgh show-talk national star is Rumanian.
Q. Peninsula," points:
born Nadia Gray. Innay, rather
"Tis ù cays Cyrano.
mighty While at the stage, operatic Dramatist C. E. Webber male-Roine signing a contract for xpensive, proboscis, ico. It and gence stars have been hab. crashing the Festival with a new Italian film, she was cost the producers nearly nobbing in the Edinburgh lime- unheralded new play at a local back in London in time £2,000 to fashion. light this weck one quiet spoken hall about a man who gets bang→ mon has been staying with his cd on the head with a ledger. for the September 6 open- wife and family in a modest And getting nearly as bad notices little hotel some distance away. as he did for that Arts-play in
London 11 week man who stands on his head.
Ovation For Him
However, the outlay appears. ing of the sensational Scan-to have been justified, Wear-
Ferrer dinavian adventure story, ing it Mr
won the best as the year, desple 'on
agcabou: Valley of Eagles, and will Academy Award
then make another British or of the
unsuccessful last-minute at- Autograph hunters stalking film before going to Ger-tempt to brand him as a Com- Maha Shearer in vain at all the He is 42-year-old Willian Festival's social centres. Like the inauy to star opposite John munist and therefore not the Wordsworth, descendant of the rest of the Sadier's Wells Ballet Garfield
American right cort of person to win an
Oscar. poel-and the only man to give Moira is going early to bed: with
Since then, and minus. the production. the Festival a big and successful Dame Ninette de Valois watch-
nost, Mr Ferrer has been pone new British work.
parties are "out" for the ballet
in an
fully сл the spot, late-night In "Valley of Eagles," which too popular In Hollywood. For Mr Wordsworth's boldly de---whatever mere aclors. and was made on location in Scan-one #igned, grand-scale
may choose to do, symphony singers (his second) earned him An evatten from a crowded audience at the Usher Hall on the spen- ing night.
thing, the Red Witch Hunters have continued to pur sue him. For another, he hus committed the cardinal sin of concentrating his abilfiles
the theatre.
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On Broadway he launchea· LUNA E PARK
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triumphant revival of the "safety first" apologists, playing of former surgeon Boyd critics as "first rate thriller
"Twentieth Century," a play Neel's String Orchestra at morn entertainment...
by Charles MacArthur and What has the cinema contri- ing concerts in the Freemasons'
unique Britain-balter Ben Hecht and buted to this Festival of all the Hall..
spectacle......full of amazing followed it up by, directing a arts? Well, there are Alms on show from 25 countries-includ-
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At present he is preparing to visit London for the Her new
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miere of "Cyrano." I wouldn't than an artistic, note: Edin romantle 17th century story to put it past him to make Holly- Rossellini, on top of the Italian burgh's optimistic csilmale of be directed by the celebrated wood even more croes by set- sercen world before the £1,000,000 Influx of trade dur-Marlo Camerinl will be made in Stromboli Ingrid
here. episode is Anding Alm finance being realised.
Bergman Ing the big Three Weeks, is not Rome, this winter with the dining down and doing a play
logue recorded in both Italian difficult nowadays. Flis new
and French. Neither langungo LA SWANSON. TOO was made picturo
on the shoe-string and Americans, are here all rightPresents any difficulty to Nadia. Meanwhile his co-star of proverbial
speaks both fluently in ad- Twentieth Century Gloria She looks like it.
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It has dashes of pictorial, even office culture, not in the shopy, The story with Garfield will concentrate on the theatre, and spiritual beauty. But on the With admission pricts high and revive 2 mony.
for has been looking around for a Whole 1 is curiously FOMUND GWENN ·
amateur, so much to see and hear there Nadia. In it she will play a new leading man to appear I don't see this Edinburgh pre-" isn't enough money loft over... Yugoslav girl who tries toes with her in a play, "Nina
Her choice is un English new DONALD CRISP miere as the prelude to a fer-
cape from behind the Iron Cur tune at the box-omees.
tor she once befriended when tela and the story has many he was a struggling extra GERALDINE BROOKS
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V and his first- theatrical ⠀⠀ ap-
What has Britain to show the small army of wallseases, re- America's Lewis Milestone, who keep him away from films-un- Directing the fum will be pearance in years, is likely to among the 23 countries? One cuited from all over the elty feature-length picture Alee have ample leisure to collect was the first to encourage Nedia ul "next June. Guinness In The Man. In
to try her luck on, the stags and Hi fans won't be any
Walle Sulf-which is already on
aautographs,
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